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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment explaining what cortex_a9_rev() is doing.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:31:52 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1202100630130.6678@oneiric> (raw)


Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

---

  stole the comment straight from U-Boot, it seems useful since that
line of code isn't at all intuitive.

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap/omap4_generic.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap/omap4_generic.c
index 5223c7e..c6e46e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap/omap4_generic.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap/omap4_generic.c
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ static unsigned int cortex_a9_rev(void)

 	unsigned int i;

+	/* Read Main ID Register (MIDR) */
 	asm ("mrc p15, 0, %0, c0, c0, 0" : "=r" (i));

 	return i;


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